The Social Network (2010)

"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"

Directed by David Fincher
Produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Based on "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella
Music by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth

Edited by Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
Production companies: Relativity Media, Trigger Street Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date: 1 October 2010 (Canada)

Running time: 120 minutes
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $224.9 million

"The Social Network" is a biographical drama film directed by David Fincher, written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Ben Mezrich's book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal". It shows the founding of social networking website Facebook with all the ensuing consequences.

Cast

• Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
• Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin
• Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker
• Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
• Max Minghella as Divya Narendra
• Josh Pence as Tyler Winklevoss (double)
• Brenda Song as Christy Lee
• Rashida Jones as Marylin Delpy
• Steve Sires as Bill Gates
• John Getz as Sy
• David Selby as Gage
• Denise Grayson as Gretchen
• Douglas Urbanski as Larry Summers
• Rooney Mara as Erica Albright
• Joseph Mazzello as Dustin Moskovitz
• Dustin Fitzsimons as The Phoenix
• Wallace Langham as Peter Thiel
• Dakota Johnson as Amelia Ritter
• Malese Jow as Alice Cantwel
• Trevor Wright as Josh Thompson
• Shelby Young as K.C.
• Aaron Sorkin as Ad Executive

I've been sure from the outset: the film would be great. Why? Firstly, because of the story itself which everybody wanted to know: how Mark Zuckerberg became who he's today. Secondly, the director of the picture was David Fincher, one of my favourite directors, whose works keep my attention till the end. All in all, I was right.

As for the cast, I made certain that Jesse Eisenberg has a talent: his portrayal of Zuckerberg turned out actually intriguing. Andrew Garfield, "The Amazing Spider-Man" films with whom I haven't seen yet, surprised me - his character is one of the clue that helped him show his acting technique.

Advantages

• Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
• Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin
• David Fincher

Disadvantages

• A little slow moving

"Strangenesses"

• Any offence may be so powerful

Clue Moments

• Legal proceedings
• Meeting with Sean Parker
• The launch of Facebook

According to Wikipedia, Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities students.

After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Facebook had over 1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 2015. Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies. Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. As of February 2015 Facebook reached a market capitalization of $212 Billion.

Soundtracks

1. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise
2. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - In Motion
3. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - A Familiar Taste
4. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - It Catches Up with You
5. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Intriguing Possibilities
6. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Painted Sun in Abstract
7. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - 3:14 Every Night
8. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Pieces Form the Whole
9. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Carbon Prevails
10. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Eventually We Find Our Way
11. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Penetration
12. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - In the Hall of the Mountain King
13. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - On We March
14. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Magnetic
15. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Almost Home
16. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise
17. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Complication With Optimistic Outcome
18. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - The Gentle Hum of Anxiety
19. Trent Reznor feat. Atticus Ross - Soft Trees Break the Fall

Quotations

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Erica Albright: You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

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Marylin Delpy: The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?
Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand.
Marylin Delpy: I'm sorry?
Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two *thousand*.
Marylin Delpy: [to herself] Wow.

* * *

Mark Zuckerberg: Your date looks so familiar to me.
Sean Parker: She looks familiar to a lot of people.
Mark Zuckerberg: What do you mean?
Sean Parker: A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh-highs.

* * *

Mark Zuckerberg: I'm not a bad guy.
Marylin Delpy: I know that. When there's emotional testimony, I assume that 85% of it is exaggeration.
Mark Zuckerberg: And the other fifteen?
Marylin Delpy: Perjury. Creation myths need a Devil.

* * *

Marylin Delpy: What are you doing?
Mark Zuckerberg: Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia.
Marylin Delpy: Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook.
[Mark says nothing]
Marylin Delpy: You must really hate the Winklevosses.
Mark Zuckerberg: I don't hate anybody. The "Winklevii" aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.

* * *

K.C.: Seven different people spammed me the same link.
KC's Friend: What is it?
K.C.: I don't know, but I'm really hoping it's cats that look like Hitler, because I can never get enough of that.

* * *

Mark Zuckerberg: I'm just saying I need to do something substantial in order to get the attention of the clubs.
Erica Albright: Why?
Mark Zuckerberg: Because they're exclusive. And fun. And they lead to a better life.
Erica Albright: Teddy Roosevelt didn't get elected president because he was a member of the Phoenix club.
Mark Zuckerberg: He was a member of the Porcelain, and yes he did.

* * *

Mark Zuckerberg: I was drunk, and angry, and stupid...
Marylin Delpy: ...and Blogging.
Mark Zuckerberg: And Blogging.

* * *

Eduardo Saverin: Don't fish eat other fish? The marlins and the trout!

* * *

Marylin Delpy: [Urging Zuckerberg to make the $65 million settlement with the Twins] Pay them. In the scheme of things, it's a speeding ticket.

* * *

Mark Zuckerberg: People want to go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around, maybe it's someone you just met at a party. Eduardo, I'm not talking about a dating site, I'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.

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You may see the trailer here.

Plot: 8/10

Entertainment: 8/10

Acting: 8/10

Originality: 8/10

Music and Sound: 7/10

8/10